HIM 3000 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2026
ONC - Answers The ultimate body/agency overseeing the HIE network of healthcare within the US
State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program - Answers The Office of the
National Coordinator for HIT is providing assistance for establishing health information exchange
organizations via the:
Federally mandated standards - Answers Considerations for the continued development of US health
information exchanges include all of the following:
federated HIE - Answers An HIE with no central repository where provider-to-provider networks use
the Internet for connectivity is known as a(n):
Centralized - Answers In which EHR database model is all of the organization's patient health
information stored in one system?
Opt-in - Answers This HIE consent model requires the patient to give their consent for the inclusion of
their data in the HIE.
Population health monitoring - Answers Establishing an Accountable Care Organization will require
health informatics professionals to improve their skills related to:
Meaningful Use - Answers The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) stimulus package
includes financial incentives for health care providers that attain ________________ with their
electronic health record systems.
to create the criteria for determining when and for which patients an alert or guideline should be
triggered in the clinical decision support - Answers The single most important use of secondary data
is:
it provides greater detail - Answers Unstructured data may be preferred over structured data because
True - Answers T/F: Patient portals provide access to a patient's individual health information
True - Answers A focus of Computer Assisted Coding is to reduce compliance risk.
Ethics - Answers Standards of moral practice, values, and a code of conduct:
Meaningful Use of information - Answers Using systems with certified software to enhance the use of
data contained in and obtained from health records.
Health Level 7 (HL7) - Answers The organization dedicated to creating standards for exchanges,
management, and integration of electronic information sets acceptable vocabulary standards for
clinical documentation
the specific instance of condition or illness with defined time frame with beginning and ending times
identified - Answers An episode of care is:
Insurance Data - Answers Which of the following would not be considered "clinical" information
managed by health professionals in an office-based practice?
Nursing clinical Info - Answers Allowing documentation of "intake and output last 24 hours" would
primarily be provided by which system?
HITECH - Answers The Act that designated funding to promote and expand adoption of health
information technology:
those which feed data into the EHR - Answers Source systems are:
Nominal - Answers Any entry for the data variable of Gender in a patient data file is the following type
of data:
Ordinal - Answers An entry in the data variable of Years of Education in a patient data file is the
following type of data:
Ratio - Answers The data variable of Days of Care in a patient data file is the following type of data
Interval - Answers The data variable of Bath Temperature in a data file is the following type of data:
The different purposes - Answers A healthcare facility is attempting to use its clinical data for
reimbursement, clinical care, and research. As it moves forward with its planning and remaining in
compliance with the government mandates, the primary consideration for choosing the different
standard code sets, classification systems, and terminologies is:
studying the data dictionary - Answers In order to effectively analyze data the analyst must first
understand the data. This is best done by:
from stakeholder to stakeholder
between executive leadership, stakeholders, and vendors
between executive leadership and internal stakeholders - Answers The three levels of communication
important to successful EHR implementation among internal stakeholders include all of the following:
ONC - Answers The ultimate body/agency overseeing the HIE network of healthcare within the US
State Health Information Exchange Cooperative Agreement Program - Answers The Office of the
National Coordinator for HIT is providing assistance for establishing health information exchange
organizations via the:
Federally mandated standards - Answers Considerations for the continued development of US health
information exchanges include all of the following:
federated HIE - Answers An HIE with no central repository where provider-to-provider networks use
the Internet for connectivity is known as a(n):
Centralized - Answers In which EHR database model is all of the organization's patient health
information stored in one system?
Opt-in - Answers This HIE consent model requires the patient to give their consent for the inclusion of
their data in the HIE.
Population health monitoring - Answers Establishing an Accountable Care Organization will require
health informatics professionals to improve their skills related to:
Meaningful Use - Answers The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) stimulus package
includes financial incentives for health care providers that attain ________________ with their
electronic health record systems.
to create the criteria for determining when and for which patients an alert or guideline should be
triggered in the clinical decision support - Answers The single most important use of secondary data
is:
it provides greater detail - Answers Unstructured data may be preferred over structured data because
True - Answers T/F: Patient portals provide access to a patient's individual health information
True - Answers A focus of Computer Assisted Coding is to reduce compliance risk.
Ethics - Answers Standards of moral practice, values, and a code of conduct:
Meaningful Use of information - Answers Using systems with certified software to enhance the use of
data contained in and obtained from health records.
Health Level 7 (HL7) - Answers The organization dedicated to creating standards for exchanges,
management, and integration of electronic information sets acceptable vocabulary standards for
clinical documentation
the specific instance of condition or illness with defined time frame with beginning and ending times
identified - Answers An episode of care is:
Insurance Data - Answers Which of the following would not be considered "clinical" information
managed by health professionals in an office-based practice?
Nursing clinical Info - Answers Allowing documentation of "intake and output last 24 hours" would
primarily be provided by which system?
HITECH - Answers The Act that designated funding to promote and expand adoption of health
information technology:
those which feed data into the EHR - Answers Source systems are:
Nominal - Answers Any entry for the data variable of Gender in a patient data file is the following type
of data:
Ordinal - Answers An entry in the data variable of Years of Education in a patient data file is the
following type of data:
Ratio - Answers The data variable of Days of Care in a patient data file is the following type of data
Interval - Answers The data variable of Bath Temperature in a data file is the following type of data:
The different purposes - Answers A healthcare facility is attempting to use its clinical data for
reimbursement, clinical care, and research. As it moves forward with its planning and remaining in
compliance with the government mandates, the primary consideration for choosing the different
standard code sets, classification systems, and terminologies is:
studying the data dictionary - Answers In order to effectively analyze data the analyst must first
understand the data. This is best done by:
from stakeholder to stakeholder
between executive leadership, stakeholders, and vendors
between executive leadership and internal stakeholders - Answers The three levels of communication
important to successful EHR implementation among internal stakeholders include all of the following:
